This presentation offers valuable tips for business owners and financial executives to better manage your company\'s assets and raise capital in a changing economy. You\'ll learn new strategies for conserving cash, diversifying funding sources, and retaining talent -- all from a new Deloitte special report. Find out how to develop a "new mix" of capital to finance your company, and hear other tips for reducing costs and accelerating business growth.

1. Tips for Improving Cash Flow from Deloitte May 19, 2011 2:00 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. PT

3. Tips from Deloitte: Ways CFOs can adapt to changing financial markets1

4. Receivables Auction: An innovative solution to raise capital

5. Q & ASource: Deloitte & Touche LLP, “See the Bigger Picture: Managing Assets in Volatile Times: 9 ways CFOs can Adapt to Changing Financial Markets”..

7. Bank lending fell by $587 billion, or 7.5% in 2009, the largest annual decline since the 1940sSource: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., 2010 Source: Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project, Survey Report III, 2010 Source: CFO Magazine: July/August 2010

8. 3 Tip 2: Conserve Cash, Control Costs “Everybody’s looking for the quick, easy wins – but many companies will also need to implement more comprehensive, far-reaching cost reduction efforts to get the results they’re looking for.” What happens when there’s nothing left to squeeze?

9. 4 Tip 3: Lower Working Capital Requirements Track accounts payable performance by commodity and extend terms to industry benchmarks. Eliminate errors in the order-to-delivery process to reduce disputes and improve accounts receivable performance. Improve demand forecasting and inventory planning to lower inventory requirements.

10. 5 Tip 4: Establish a Plan C Traditional budgeting cycles are no longer applicable or particularly useful. Focused, short-term 30 and 60-day forecasts may provide a much more practical option Economic and business uncertainty is forcing companies to improve cash flow visibility by driving greater use of short-term cash flow forecasting

12. Invest in technology

13. Hire more staff

14. Increase market share through acquisitions

15. 60% of companies anticipate their working capital needs to increase in 2011 vs. 2010Source: The Receivables Exchange Working Capital Research Group. 2010 If your company is strapped for cash, are you missing out on these opportunities?

17. Employees

18. Financial Lenders

19. Suppliers

25. No contracts or blanket liens

26. No monthly minimums or obligation to trade

27. No hidden costs

28. No customer notification

30. Minimum advance amount

31. When the auction closes

32. Buyout Option – Optimal Criteria

33. When to auction invoices

34. Which invoices to auctionA/R Seller A/R Buyer bids that fall outside of parameters are invalid

35. 11 No Personal Guarantees A personal guarantee on a business loan should be a last resort – Dun & Bradstreet Definition:“A personal guarantee is an unsecured promise from an individual to make loan payments when a small business is not able to do so.” – Inc. Magazine Which means…If you can’t pay your loan from your business account, you will have to pay from your personal account, and you could risk losing your car, yourhouse, and your savings. Receivables financing does NOT require a personal guarantee. You are leveraging your commercial receivables, NOT your personal assets.

36. 12 An Efficient Marketplace for Working Capital Existing Capital Marketplace New Competitive Electronic Capital Marketplace Banks Seller Seller Banks Asset Based Lenders Seller Seller Asset Based Lenders Traditional Factors Seller Seller Traditional Factors Hedge Funds Seller Seller Hedge Funds Pricing discrepancies Inefficient Local Fragmented Centralized Transparent Efficient Global

38. Online receivables financing unlocks the power of competition to lower your cost of capital.

40. Industry – engineering services personnel

41. Long bank relationship

43. Grew by 37% in 2009, nearly 70% in 2010

44. Lowered cost of capital more than 40%

46. 16 Industry Recognition “Most Innovative E-Commerce Company in the World” Named the winner in the e-commerce category of The Wall Street Journal’s 2010 Technology Innovation awards, which recognizes the most important innovators in technology worldwide. The first winner in the e-commerce category since 2004. “Top 40 Innovator in Financial Technology” Named to “2010 Tech 40: The Top 40 Innovators in Financial Technology” alongside financial services heavyweights JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Bloomberg and others. “New Capital Market” Morgan Stanley Business-to-Business finance report hails The Receivables Exchange as “a new capital market” and solution for SME supplier financing . “Hope for the Financial Industry” Named one of “Eight Startups Brimming with Hope for the Financial Industry.” “Best Web-based Supply Chain Financing Solution” Named the “2009 Best Web-based Supply Chain Financing Solution.”

48. Companies registered in the U.S.

49. Two years minimum operating history